[Am-info] Gates forecasts victory over spam (Gates is right)

[Joe Moore]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 10:30:36AM -0800, Hans Reiser wrote:
> I think payment at risk is very much the right solution, and the only 
> one that can work.  All the rest is an arms race that the spammers will 
> win because they care more.  My only concern is that we are taking too 
> long to go to payment at risk, and we are going to be suffering the 
> whole time until it happens.
> 
> I don't think that payment at risk is Gates's original idea though....

Except that payment at risk requires charging the spammer.

In order to charge the spammer, you have to find the spammer.

If you can find the spammer, why not charge it with the rest of the
illegal activites that go along with spamming (fraud, slander, peddling
obscenity, prescription fraud, tresspass, computer misuse, etc)

--Joe